How To Use Damocles In A Sentence
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The possibility of losing her job hung over her like a sword of Damocles all last year.
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On the 28th, there was a gut-busting editorial, headlined "Farewell, Farewell!", that led with something or other by the Damoclesian sword having fallen and moved on to Jubal Early and the British invasion of 1814..
50 years ago, the Senators left and arrived
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The zones earmarked for growth are poised like three swords of Damocles around London's periphery, each one centred on its own source of sustenance: a dirty great road.
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The man's knowing complicity becomes his undoing and his and his loyal but conscience-stricken wife's world is impacted in ways that, even for one who believes that conscience is a Damoclesian sword hanging over the heads of the those who propagate the type of moral corruption epitomized by the character of "Kenneth Hoyle," rarely if ever hears about nowadays.
Steven Weber: Thanks, Art!
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The Day Job hangs over me like the sword of chuffing Damocles.
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The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics.
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Carol spotted Damocles up ahead of her on the opposite side of the street.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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The day following the Court read an opinion which is a model of ambiguous and equivocal statement, but the purport was fairly clear: for the moment the Court would not interfere, and the prosecution was free to proceed as it thought best, with the warning that the Damocles sword of "irrelevancy" was suspended over its head by the barest thread and might fall at any moment.
John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
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Government threats to cut the budget by 50% are hanging over the Opera House like a sword of Damocles.
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The possibility of losing her job hung over her like a sword of Damocles all last year.
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With respect to uninvoked rights, the rationale for such a high standard is that such a right represents a sword of Damocles over the buyer's head which may fall in the future.
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They didn’t really have much choice though, all the other big car companies were entering the compo, and the hummer is the damocles’ sword hanging over any eclology claims by GM.
THE ALGAE-FILLED HUMMER O2 | Inhabitat
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the possibility hangs over their heads like the sword of Damocles
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Sword of Damocles , originated from the Greek legend of Damocles is the tyrant Dionysius Ist of Syracuse (formerly 430-367) of the minions.
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The treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics.
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Government threats to cut the budget by 50% are hanging over the Opera House like a sword of Damocles.
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Rear guard line Chief Saneidi with Damocles , Heinze will compose three guards the partners.
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But the gauzy Norman Rockwell normality he invoked won't persuade the electorate at a time of 10 percent unemployment, the Damocles sword that hangs over his head for 2012, when voters will get a chance to weigh in directly on his presidency, which he has largely placed in the hands of Ivy League meritocrats more concerned with protecting their wealthy coevals than the general public.
Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
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Government threats to cut the budget by 50% are hanging over the Opera House like a sword of Damocles.
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Directly opposite Damocles, two men were making a very thorough job of cleaning the window of a newsagent's.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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And here we would express our sincere thanks to all such as alleviated so greatly the burdens war had imposed upon us -- alleviated these by friendly sympathies, which found expression in deeds of kindness and love, and that at a time and in circumstances when the sword of Damocles was suspended over their heads, for to give an enemy a drop of cold water was then considered a great crime!
In the Shadow of Death
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Mathayus plans to journey to Egypt to get a mystical weapon to help him defeat the evil Sargon, but quickly learns that he must get a different magic gewgaw, the sword of Damocles, in order to kill his foe.
DVD Review: Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (Blu-ray)
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The author holds that information disclosure is the Damocles sword of franchising.
